Will we see their like again? And do we want to?
It’s almost obligatory, as one ages, to start the occasional sentence with “In my day…” and to recollect figures from the past as being somehow greater and more influential than their contemporaries. It’s often portrayed alongside resistance to change as mere wistfulness for days past; as memory amplified over time and thus distorted. But is it always? Today we learn that former Australian PM Gough Whitlam has died. Amongst the photos posted on social media was one of Whitlam